Re: Working your way to Europe?
- From: B Vaughan<me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:50:25 +0200
On 20 Apr 2006 06:34:34 -0700, "Iceman" <oneofcold@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Also, has anyone worked while backpacking through Europe doing oddjobs
to pick up some extra cash or in compensation for food or board? Is
this common, and if so in what countries?"
There is high unemployment in many European countries, so most places
won't allow you to work legally. Working illegally (restaurant or bar
work, farm work) will tend to pay very little, since you are in
competition with large numbers of illegal immigrants willing to work
for very low wages. Some hostels will hire backpackers and give them a
room in exchange for staffing the hostel, but you will earn very little
other than the room.
In Asia, many English schools will pay good money for native speakers
as teachers, even on a short-term basis, and a lot of backpackers in
Asia do a few months of English teaching in cities like Tokyo or Seoul
to fund their travels in much cheaper places like Thailand and India.
I'm not sure if the same demand for English teachers exists in Europe,
but you might try contacting English schools in Spain, France, or Italy.
In Italy (and I imagine also in Spain and France), it's very difficult
to get a job teaching English in a language school unless you have
some sort of certification to teach ESL (English as a second
language).
It's very difficult for nonEuropeans to work legally in Europe, just
as it is for Europeans to work legally in the US or Cananda. There is
illegal work available in most countries, but most of it is
back-breaking work and the employers are not much interested in
short-term workers.
If you are a full-time student, there are various legal ways to work
in Europe for a short time. This would require staying in one place
most of the time, maybe taking day trips or weekend trips to other
places and staying on a few weeks at the end to do some travelling.
It's not a bad way to see Europe, as you really get to know one place
well. The University of Michigan has a good web site about work abroad
for students. Here is their page about short-term work abroad:
http://www.umich.edu/~icenter/overseas/work/shortterm1.html
Most of these programs will only pay part of your costs for the time
you are abroad, and many of them also charge a several-hundred-dollar
fee. They make it cheaper to travel abroad, but it certainly isn't
free.
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
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